coal

Conférence de clôture proposée
par Jean-Luc Soret en collaboration avec Le Cube


Auditorium du Cube,
Issy-les-Moulineaux
15:00 - 18:00
dimanche 12 octobre 2008

avec Jean-Luc Soret, Marko Peljhan, Ewen Chardronnet et Annick Bureaud

www.art-outsiders.com

Launching Event:
Dőrte Meyer, Occupied, 2008 with the collaboration of Gert Bendel


Centre for Visual Introspection
16 Biserica Enei, Bucharest, District 1, Romania
Phone: +4021 314 22 98
Contact:
office@pplus4.ro

www.pplus4.ro

23 September- 30 October
Opening Hours: We-Sa 12.00- 17.00
Centre for Visual Introspection is an independent platform for research, artistic and theoretical production founded in Bucharest by a collective of artists and curators.
The Centre opens its doors with a series of site-specific art interventions displayed in the phone booths in the central district of Bucharest during 23 and 27 September and an accompanying program of lectures, sound performances and a special exhibition, grouped under the title 'Ars Telefonica'.

Participants: Studio Basar (Bucharest); Luca Frei (Malmő); Carl Michael von Hausswolff (Stockholm); Dőrte Meyer (Berlin); Roland Schőny (Vienna); Bernhard Schreiner (Frankfurt); son:DA (Maribor); Jiri Skala (Prague); Nasan Tur (Berlin); Joanna Warsza (Warsaw); Adnan Yildiz (Istanbul/Berlin)

Special Event:
Let me hold you hand,
Iratxe Jaio + Klaas van Gorkum (Rotterdam)
Opening 02 October

ARTISTE ASSOCIÉ AU PARC DE LA VILLETTE, OLIVIER DARNÉ CRÉE, DANS LE CADRE DE SA RÉSIDENCE, LES LUNES DE MIEL, ABOUTISSEMENT D’UNE NOUVELLE ÉTAPE DANS SES RECHERCHES ET EXPÉRIENCES SUR LA « POLLINISATION DE LA VILLE »
du 26 juin au 28 septembre 2008
En septembre 2006, dans le cadre de son projet « Zones sensibles » et avec l’aide du Centre Georges Pompidou, Olivier Darné avait installé durant un mois sur la Piazza du Centre, un Pollinisateur urbain, dispositif à l’intérieur duquel vivait une colonie de 80 000 abeilles. Le Pollinisateur
urbain est une version habitable du Butineur urbain, qui, en 2004, lui avait permis, dans le cadre de son projet « L’erreur est urbaine ! », de poser une colonie de 80 000 abeilles dans l'espace public, sur les trottoirs des villes. Aujourd’hui, autre refuge insolite pour 2 terriens et 100 000 abeilles, le Luneur invite à vivre une expérience singulière à la croisée des canaux, au coeur du Parc de la Villette : « Les Lunes de miel ». Cet habitat transhumant pour hommes et abeilles est, comme le Pollinisateur urbain,
conçu à partir d’un conteneur intermodal, cellule de mondialisation transformée en ruche urbaine. Ce caisson renferme une ou plusieurs ruches à cadres mobiles permettant d’héberger jusqu’à 100 000 abeilles. Cet espace de cohabitation agit comme un démultiplicateur sensoriel, de sons,
d’odeurs, d’images et devient « chambre de pollinisation ». Tel un sas de décompression urbaine, il permet de vivre un temps de contemplation urbaine, humaine et animale, entre appréhension, peur et fascination. Ce dispositif, que l’on pourrait qualifier de surnaturel, permet une méditation fascinante déclenchée par l’observation hypnotique d’une proximité et d’une intimité avec un flux d’abeilles. Une manière de mesurer non seulement l’effet des a priori et des fantasmes provoqués par cette
rencontre troublante, mais également de transformer la peur en curiosité. Par l’intermédiaire d’une ressource sauvage et d’un miel, on découvre un nouveau point de vue d’observation de la ville. Comme le Pollinisateur urbain, le Luneur révèle la zone de butinage, les 3 000 hectares de « Zone sensible urbaine » qui nous entoure. On décrypte alors avec le MIEL BÉTON une autre ville, ville impensable et invisible dont on découvre la complexité en même temps que l’on découvre en bouche la diversité de ses arômes.
Surprenant butin du ciel et paradoxal témoignage de la complexité de la ville, ce miel de pays est le résultat d’une diversité végétale, animale et humaine au sein d’un territoire si commun à tous qu’il se donne à manger.
Comme se plait à le dire Olivier Darné : « Le temps n’est pas que de l’argent, parfois c’est du miel, – Time is Honey ».
(extrait du dossier de presse)

Monday, 23 June 2008 Written by Juha Huuskonen
Nuage Vert has been awarded the Ars Electronica Golden Nica in the 'Hybrid Art' category!!
Ars Electronica jury gave the statement about the work: "Pollstream – Nuage Vert transforms clouds into projection surfaces. As such, these indefinable, constantly and chaotically changing products of the condensation of water vapor become media bearing political ideas and messages. Or aestheticized symbols of environmental pollution caused by carbon emissions. Pollstream – Nuage Vert was developed in collaboration with experts in laser technology, computer science, electrical engineering, energy generation and air quality monitoring. Development commenced in 2002 and concluded in February 2008 with a performance in Helsinki that impressively demonstrated how art is capable of encompassing an entire city—its public sphere, its industry and its inhabitants—and unfolding sociopolitical relevance. Pollstream – Nuage Vert is the recipient of the 2008 Golden Nica in the Hybrid Art category."
In May 2008, Nuage Vert was also awarded the 01SJ Green Prix for Environmental Art at the second edition of 01SJ Festival in San Jose, US
www.pixelache.ac/nuage-blog

"resolving another boundary
between art and business"


apexart
291 Church Street
New York, NY 10013

http://www.apexart.org



apexart wants to come to you. Any city, any town, anywhere in the world. We are offering a one-time franchise opportunity where apexart will come to your city and appoint you the director of your own temporary non-profit exhibition space. For a four-week exhibition, and in the months preceding, you will be the director and/or curator and/or staff of your own institution with a budget, a salary, and complete control.

We will provide up to 10,000 USD in funding, along with the necessary guidance to make your curated exhibition happen, accompanied by an apexart brochure. In addition, prior to your show, we'll arrange to bring you to NYC for three days, all expenses paid, to visit apexart and meet our staff.

Submit up to a 250-word statement on why apexart should come to you. Applications will be accepted until midnight December 1, 2008 EST, from anyone, anywhere in the world. Visit www.apexart.org/franchise.htm for more information on how to apply.

apexart is a 501(c)(3) non-profit contemporary visual arts organization located in Lower Manhattan. Through our exhibitions, international residency, publication initiatives, and programs and events, we are committed to cultural and intellectual diversity and aim to stimulate public dialogue about contemporary art. Our exhibitions and programs are intended to promote consideration among our local audience while extending the dialogue to our international audience through print and electronic outreach. Since our inception in 1994, more than 1,000 artists, from emerging to established and from all over the globe, have participated in over 130 exhibitions. Each year, apexart presents seven group exhibitions, hosts eight international residents, organizes numerous public lectures and performances, and distributes 70,000 full-color interpretive exhibition brochures free of charge to individuals and institutions in 95 countries. In addition, our web-based audience con sists of over 17,000 unique visitors monthly from more than 100 nations. This widespread distribution and outreach of our programs is vital to apexart's ability to develop new audiences and to bring new voices and critical perspectives to New York.

apexart
291 Church Street
New York, NY 10013
http://www.apexart.org

Exit Art
475 Tenth Avenue (at 36th Street)
New York, NY 10018
Phone: +00 1 212 966 7745
Fax: +00 1 212 925 2928
Contact: Lauren Rosati
lauren@exitart.org

www.exitart.org

September 20 – November 22, 2008
Opening Reception Saturday September 20, 2008, 7-10 pm
In Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now, hundreds of posters, photographs, moving images, audio clips, and ephemera bring to life over forty years of activism, political protest, and campaigns for social justice. Curated by Dara Greenwald and Josh MacPhee as part of Exit Art's Curatorial Incubator Program, this important and timely exhibition surveys the creative work of dozens of international social movements.

Organized thematically, the exhibition presents the creative outpourings of social movements, such as those for civil rights and black power in the United States; democracy in China; anti-apartheid in Africa; squatting in Europe; environmental activism and women's rights internationally; and the global AIDS crisis, as well as uprisings and protests, such as those for indigenous control of lands; against airport construction in Japan; and for social change in France. The exhibition also explores the development of powerful counter-cultures that evolve beyond traditional politics and create distinct aesthetics, life-styles, and social organizations.

Although histories of political groups and counter-cultures have been written, and political and activist shows have been held, this exhibition is a groundbreaking attempt to chronicle the artistic and cultural production of these movements. Signs of Change offers a chance to see relatively unknown or rarely seen works, and is intended to not only provide a historical framework for contemporary activism, but also to serve as an inspiration for the present and the future.

This exhibition will travel to the Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, January 23 - March 8, 2009.

During the exhibition, there will be ongoing screen printing workshops with guest artists and activists in collaboration with the Lower East Side Printshop as well as the following programs and events.


DAILY SCREENING SERIES

Films in the series include Newe Segobia is Not for Sale: The Struggle for Western Shoshone Land (1993); The Land Belongs to Those Who Work It / La tierra es de quien la trabaja (2005); To Walk Naked (1995); Break and Enter (1970); Stronger than Before (1983); Carry Greenham Home (1984); Korea: Until Day Break (Excerpt from ...will be televised) (1990); Un Poquito de Tanta Verdad / A Little Bit of So Much Truth (2008); What the Fuck Are These Red Squares? (1970); The Columbia University Divestment Struggle: Paper Tiger at Mandela Hall (1985); Standing with Palestine (2004); Five Days for Peace (1973); Indonesia: Art, Activism, and Rock 'n' Roll (2002); People's Park (1969); Excerpt from Lanesville Overview I; Be a DIVA (1990); I the Film (2006); A Very Big Train Called the Other Campaign / Un tren muy grande que se llama: La Otra Campaña (2006); Crowd Bites Wolf (2001); Fourth World War (2003); Newsreel shorts and other films TBA.

For a complete schedule, please visit www.exitart.org.

SPECIAL PROGRAMS

TWO-PANEL SYMPOSIUM

THURSDAY, September 25: Signs of Change Symposium

6 pm: Producing and Distributing Social Movement Culture

Panelists include: Sphinx/Indymedia Africa, illcommonz (Japan), Favianna Rodriguez/Tumis Design (Oakland, CA) and others TBA. Moderated by Gregory Sholette, Assistant Professor Queens College Department of Art, Co-Founder PAD/D & REPOhistory/New York.

8 pm: Assessing the History and Future of Social Movement Culture: A Critical Analysis

Panelists include: Sasha Roseneil/Professor of Sociology and Social Theory, Director, Birkbeck Institute for Social Research, Birbeck, University of London (UK), Mary Patten/Artist & Professor, School of the Art Institute (Chicago), and others TBA. Moderated by Kazembe Balagun, Brecht Forum/blogger: blackmanwithalibrary.com (New York, NY).

COLUMBUS DAY WEEKEND

Saturday, OCTOBER 11 to Monday, OCTOBER 13:

Weekend of Screenings and Discussion, co-sponsored by 16beaver group

The Signs of Change Weekend of Screenings and Discussion brings together films and videos from the past 40 years that raise questions about what it means to participate in both cultural production and political action. Discussions will follow each screening. Curated in collaboration with Benj Gerdes and Paige Sarlin of 16beaver group.

SATURDAY, October 11 at Exit Art

4 pm: Finally Got the News (1970, 16mm, League of Revolutionary Black Workers).

7:30 pm: Narita: The Peasants of the Second Fortress (Sanrizuka: Dainitoride no hitobito) (1971, B&W, 143 min., 16 mm, Ogawa Pro).

In Japanese with English subtitles.

Introduced by Sabu Kohso, Japan-born writer and activist, and Barbara Hammer, filmmaker.

Screening Co-sponsored by Asian/Pacific/American Institute and Tisch Department of Photography & Imaging at NYU in conjunction with The Uses of 1968: Legacies of Art and Activism Symposium and 1968: Then and Now Exhibition.

SUNDAY, October 12 at 16beaver group

12 pm - 9 pm; $5 - $10 donation

Featuring Diva TV (1989); Queen Mother Moore Speech at Green Haven Prison (1971); Winter Soldier (1972); Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan (2008); Stronger Than Before (1983); Fourth World War (2003) and others TBA. Discussions to follow.

MONDAY, October 13 at 16beaver group

12 pm - 9 pm; $5 - $10 donation

Featuring Happy Anniversary San Francisco, March 20-21 (2003); What the Fuck Are These Red Squares? (1970); U.S. Premiere of Five Days for Peace (1973); Crowd Bites Wolf (2001); A Very Big Train Called the Other Campaign (2006); U.S. Premiere of What Would It Mean to Win? (2008); Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance (1993); and others TBA. Discussions to follow.

For more information on the programs at 16Beaver, please visit www.16beavergroup.org or call 212.... 16beaver group is located at 16 Beaver Street, Fourth Floor, New York City.

FRIDAY, October 24, 6-8 pm:

Premiere screening of newly subtitled short films and footage of the 1960s Dutch Provo movement, and book release of Richard Kempton's Provo: Amsterdam's Anarchist Revolt (in collaboration with Autonomedia Press).


SCREEN PRINTING WORKSHOPS

In collaboration with the Lower East Side Printshop the exhibition will feature ongoing screen printing workshops with guest artists and activists. Check www.exitart.org for schedule and participating artists.

ELECTION NIGHT AT EXIT ART Save the date November 4, 2008. Please check www.exitart.org for more details.


EXHIBITION SUPPORT

Signs of Change is supported by a major grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

Additional support provided by the Museum Program at the New York State Council on the Arts, a State agency, and the Starry Night Fund at The Tides Foundation.

Public programs are supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Material support for the screen printing studio provided by the Lower East Side Printshop, New York. General exhibition support provided by Bloomberg LP; Carnegie Corporation; Jerome Foundation; Pollock-Krasner Foundation; Exit Art's Board of Directors and our members. We gratefully acknowledge public funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn and New York State Senator Thomas K. Duane.

Sponsoring partners of Signs of Change are The Center for the Study of Political Graphics (CSPG) in Los Angeles and the International Institute of Social History (IISH) in Amsterdam.

ABOUT EXIT ART

Exit Art is an independent vision of contemporary culture. We are prepared to react immediately to important issues that affect our lives. We do experimental, historical and unique presentations of aesthetic, social, political and environmental issues. We absorb cultural differences that become prototype exhibitions. We are a center for multiple disciplines. Exit Art is a 25 year old cultural center in New York City founded by Directors Jeanette Ingberman and Papo Colo, that has grown from a pioneering alternative art space, into a model artistic center for the 21st century committed to supporting artists whose quality of work reflects the transformations of our culture. Exit Art is internationally recognized for its unmatched spirit of inventiveness and consistent ability to anticipate the newest trends in the culture. With a substantial reputation for curatorial innovation and depth of programming in diverse media, Exit Art is always changing.

CURATORIAL INCUBATOR

The inaugural exhibition of Exit Art's Curatorial Incubator Program is Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now, curated by Dara Greenwald and Josh MacPhee. The program expands Exit Art's commitment to young and emerging curators and scholars in contemporary art, by giving material, financial, and human resources to developing curatorial talent. Working with Exit Art directors and staff, fellows curate large-scale exhibition projects, learn fundraising, develop outreach and educational programs, and co-publish a catalogue. Access to Exit Art's acclaimed archive facilitates these curatorial fellows' abilities to contextualize their projects within international and historical frameworks. The second show of the Curatorial Incubator Program will open in February 2008. Corpus Extremus, curated by artist Boryana Rossa, will present work by artists who investigate the revolutionary changes taking place in technological and scientific research. Curatorial Incubator Director: Mary Anne Staniszewski.

GENERAL INFORMATION

Exit Art is located at 475 Tenth Avenue, corner of 36th Street. Hours at Exit Art are Tuesday - Thursday, 10am - 6pm; Friday, 10am - 8pm; and Saturday, noon - 8pm. Closed Sunday and Monday. There is a suggested donation of $5.

For more information please call 212... or visit www.exitart.org.

IBON ARANBERRI "Cave (Ir. T. n° 513)", 2003
Video, single-channel, color, 10`; Ed.4/6. Col·lecció MACBA. Fundació Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Donació Lady Jinty Latymer. Copyright Ibon Aranberri, 2007.

September 24 - November 23, 2008:

Floor 1
IBON ARANBERRI: "DISORDER"

Floor 2
NATASCHA SADR HAGHIGHIAN:
"FRUIT OF ONE'S LABOUR"

Ground floor
10 REASONS TO BE A MEMBER
#17 H.ARTA: NEED FOR SPACE

http://www.fkv.de


FRANKFURTER KUNSTVEREIN
Steinernes Haus am Römerberg,
Markt 44, 60311 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
phone: +49.69.219314–0
fax: +49.69.219314–11
post@fkv.de
http://www.fkv.de


IBON ARANBERRI: "DISORDER"
September 24 – November 23, 2008
Opening: September 23, 2008, 7 pm

The upcoming exhibition "Disorder" in the Frankfurter Kunstverein is the first large institutional solo presentation of the Basque artist Ibon Aranberri in Germany since his participation last year in documenta 12.

Ibon Aranberri is particularly concerned with the relationships between society, politics and nature. Of importance to Aranberri are signs and objects, in which the mechanisms of society and their power structures become clear. Fundamental approaches to Aranberri's work are observation, background research, dialogue and documentation.

The body of work "Cave (Ir. T. n° 513)" (2003), which will be presented in a large-scale situation in the Frankfurter Kunstverein, documents a long journey through prehistoric caves of the Basque region in north of Spain until the dramatic closure of one specific habitat. The fieldwork that includes a trip to the site is just one part of the concept as a whole. A further more important aspect consists of the exact documentation of the place, the idea and the accomplishment of his project, as well as an incorporation of a permanent physical intervention into the relevant documentary and geographic notes, maps and archives. Aranberri works meticulously, in a comparable fashion to the methods of conceptual art. A noticeable part of his documentation is his formal description of how we treat nature, its representation and its inevitable connection with politics.

Besides this work, Aranberri also presents his sculptural installation "Floating Garden" (2004-2008). The work consists of series of modules made of concrete encrusted with broken San Pellegrino glass bottles. Although they are alienated from their conditions of daily usage they suggest the possibility to be utilised as prototypes for a fictional architecture and impart an idea of a poetic brutality in the mind of the observer.

The exhibition has been co-produced with the State Corporation for Spanish Cultural Action Abroad (SEACEX) and in collaboration with the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven.

SPONSORS: This exhibition is co-produced and kindly supported by the State Corporation for Spanish Cultural Action Abroad (SEACEX) and the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation. The opening is kindly supported by the Spanish General Consulate of Spain in Frankfurt/Main.

NATASCHA SADR HAGHIGHIAN:
"FRUIT OF ONE'S LABOUR"
September 24 – November 23, 2008
Opening: September 23, 2008, 7 pm

The solo exhibition "Fruit of One's Labour" („Früchte der Arbeit") consists of an installation and a series of lectures that the artist Natascha Sadr Haghighian developed specifically for the Frankfurter Kunstverein. The starting point of the site-specific installation will be the examination of money and financial systems, for example by posing the abstract question of how the Euro was devised as a common value system during the course of the establishment of the European Monetary Union. In her works, the artist frequently considers systems of representation: These representations stand for certain values and abstract visual concepts, yet cannot be easily translated into conditions that can be experienced. In this sense, the projections onto the Euro will be presented in the light of almost 10 years practical experience.

A lectures series aims to unravel the complexities of the European Currency Union. "Fruit of One's Labour" was realised with the help of the Institut für Stadtgeschichte, Frankfurt and the Deutsche Bundesbank.
SPONSORS: The exhibition is kindly supported by sound for friends music and tesa.

10 REASONS TO BE A MEMBER
#17 H.ARTA: NEED FOR SPACE
September 24 – November 23, 2008
Opening: September 23, 2008, 7 pm

With "Need for Space" the Romanian artist collective h.arta (Maria Crista, Anca Gyemant and Rodica Tache) presents a reflective look at their background since the group's founding in 2001 at the 10 Reasons to be a Member-space of Frankfurter Kunstverein. The group will present documentary material as well as develop a new work that emphasizes their participatory and discourse-orientated method of operating in the context of the post-communist Romania. Until 2007 h.arta organized an exhibition space in Timisoara and beyond that realised several projects in different other contexts. Thematic priority of their artistic approach is feminism, education, and access to knowledge, the general public as well as a critical view to their immediate political and social surrounding.


EXHIBITIONS CURATED BY: Chus Martínez

OPENING HOURS: Tuesday–Sunday, 11 am–7 pm

INFORMATION: http://www.fkv.de

PRESS CONTACT: Julia Wittwer, Corina Rombach, phone: +49.69.219314–30/-40, fax: +49.69.219314–11, e-mail: presse@fkv.de, http://www.fkv.de
(texts and images for download under PRESS)

Netwerk / center for contemporary art
Houtkaai z/n
9300 Aalst
Belgium
Phone: +32 53 70 97 73
Fax: +32 53 70 97 72
Contact: Niels Latomme
niels@netwerk-art.be

www.netwerk-art.be

Opening
Sat 20.09.2008, 2 pm

Open
20.09.2008 > 08.11.2008
Wed till Sat, 2 pm > 6 pm

Not Just a Landscape
Sat 25.10.2008
NEAL BEGGS BELGIUM IS NOT A ROAD

Much of Neal Beggs' work has its origin in a specific form of adventure: rock-climbing. Attraction of peaks and fascination with the void are reverberating through its details. Beggs' body of work is concentrated around a number of peak moments – as Jean-Marc Huitorel writes: Each piece [functions] as exhibition, each exhibition [is] conceived as a work. (The Analogy of the Rock, 2004). As a whole, it is dealing with the focal point of his activities: the moment of contemplation, the 'gaping' moment which comes before action and completion.

Belgium is Not a Road alludes to King Albert's alleged reaction to Kaiser Wilhelm's war plans in 1914, breaching Belgium's neutrality: Belgium is a nation, it is not a road! The reference to the Belgian king who lost his life during a climbing session in Marche-les-Dames, is the starting point of an exhibition which is conceived as a trajectory with carefully selected obstacles, interconnecting various meanings and levels. The fundamentally aesthetic motive of the short cut – the shortest possible connection between two extremities – acts hereby as an indicator.

Neal Beggs realized projects for BRXLBRAVO (Dear Prudence, Mont des Arts, 2007) and in Le Bonheur (Happy(n/x) – Starmap, 2007) in Brussels. He also had shows in Saint-Nazaire (Le Grand Café), Nantes (Zoo Galerie, FRAC des Pays de la Loire), Paris and Glasgow (Tramway). In the fall of 2008 he also participates in group exhibitions in BE-PART in Waregem (www.be-part.be) and the gallery Elisa Platteau (www.elisaplatteau.com).

XAVIER MARTIN HUIT

Huit ('Eight') is an exhibition with recent work of the Brussels' based painter Xavier Martin. Martin constructs paintings by means of careful brush strokes and successive layers of glacis. The absorbing and reflective qualities of paint are elaborated in a wide range of stylistic finesses: on canvases and supports of various formats and textures, he creates alienating renditions of atmospheric depth. Recently, he completed an extensive and impressive series of paintings in delicate nuances of white and sepia.

Blurring boundaries between volume and void, Martin's paintings refer to the idea of the landscape as a reflection of a state of mind, with subdued hints towards existentialist thinking. Lars Kwakkenbos: But the landscape is always there, a landscape that always frees itself of this support. Getting past the support is the issue. [...] On one of the pages of a note-book he wrote in 1998, we already find the following words: Par delà tout, il y a cette fumée. [...] The main thing now is to look around in the paint.

Xavier Martin was a laureate of the 'Young Belgian Painters Award' in 2003. Since then, his work has been shown a.o. in Le Botanique in Brussels and in Le Centre d'art contemporain du Luxembourg Belge. In 2006 he was invited to show work in his homeland South Korea in the group exhibition Vanitas.

NOT JUST A LANDSCAPE

On Sat 25.10.2008 the double exhibition is extended with Not Just A Landscape, an additional program documenting filiations around and between the artists' oeuvres. The title for the program alludes a.o. to Werner Herzog and his famous notion of 'ecstatic truth': the reflection of reality through a subjective, intensified angle. Focus is the experience and exploration of the contemporary landscape through artistic actions and the question how to transfer these actions and experiences to the exhibition space.

Guests include Xavier Martin, Neal Beggs, curator and critic Jean-Marc Huitorel (°1953, Rennes) and writer Duncan McClaren (°1957, Blairgowrie). The program ends with the screening of Werner Herzog's sports documentary The Great Ecstacy of Woodcarver Steiner (1974) and Shinji Aoyama's feature movie Eureka (2000).

Par des réalisateurs, des artistes et des écrivains



23 films pour le 60e anniversaire de la Déclaration universelle des Droits de l’Homme

À l’occasion du 60e anniversaire de la Déclaration universelle des Droits de l’Homme, 23 réalisateurs, artistes mondialement connus ont uni leurs forces et réalisé vingt-trois courts-métrages d’une durée d’environ trois minutes inspirés par les six thèmes de la Déclaration : culture, développement, dignité et justice, environnement, genre et participation. À l’initiative du Haut Commissaire des Nations Unies aux Droits de l’Homme, ce projet a été conçu et produit par Art for The World, une ONG vouée à l’art et à la culture contemporains, basée à Genève et Milan.



Histoires sur les Droits de l’Homme est unique car il rassemble pour la première fois des artistes et réalisateurs pour un même projet cinématographique. Les participants ont été sélectionnés pour leurs fortes qualités artistiques et le grand intérêt qu’ils portent à la promotion des Droits de l’Homme : Marina Abramovic (Serbie/Pays-Bas), Hani Abu-Assad (Palestine), Armagan Ballantyne (Nouvelle-Zélande), Sergei Bodrov (Russie), Charles De Meaux (France), Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster & Ange Leccia (France), Runa Islam (Royaume Uni/Bangladesh), Francesco Jodice (Italie), Etgar Keret et Shira Geffen (Israël), Zhan Gke Jia (Chine), Murali Nair (Inde), Idrissa Ouedraogo (Burkina Faso), Pipilotti Rist (Suisse), Walter Salles et Daniela Thomas (Brésil), Saman Salour (Iran), Sarkis (France), Bram Schouw (Pays-Bas), Teresa Serrano (Mexique), Abderrahmane Sissako (Mauritanie), Pablo Trapero (Argentine), Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Thaïlande), Robert Wilson (Etats-Unis) et Jasmila Zbanic (Bosnie).

Ces films ont été tournés dans plus de 20 pays à travers le monde et dans des langues différentes. Ils seront visibles en tant que courts-métrages individuels et ils seront également présentés tous ensemble dans un long-métrage de 80 minutes, sous-titré dans les six langues officielles des Nations Unies (arabe, chinois, anglais, français, russe, espagnol) et en portugais.

Ce long-métrage sera accompagné d’un livre (Editions Electa), rassemblant des textes inspirés des six thèmes de la Déclaration par 12 auteurs, dont 5 Prix Nobel : Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Khaled Hosseini, Roberto Saviano, Naguib Mafuz, Elfriede Jelinek, Ruth Ozeki, José Saramago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Assia Djebar, Nuruddin Farah, Toni Morrison – et des entretiens avec les réalisateurs et artistes, des images extraites des courts-métrages et des photographies des coulisses.



Diffusion et soirée exceptionnelle à Paris le 10 décembre au Théâtre de Chaillot :


Cinq des courts-métrages seront présentés à Bruxelles lors de la Conférence sur les Défenseurs des Droits de l’Homme le 7 octobre, une sélection de 10 courts-métrages sera diffusée lors du festival international du film de Tokyo (18-24 octobre), puis le long-métrage sera diffusé en avant-première mondiale au SESC Pinheiros de Sao Paulo le 13 novembre.

Le film sera également présenté dans plusieurs villes du monde le 10 décembre 2008, jour de l’anniversaire de la Déclaration, et plus particulièrement à :

- Paris lors d’une soirée exceptionnelle au Théâtre de Chaillot où la Déclaration fut signée le 10 décembre 1948, en présence de représentants des Nations Unies et du gouvernement français, des artistes et écrivains participants.
- New-York au Siège des Nations Unies.
- Genève en collaboration avec le Festival du film et Forum international sur les droits humains et le Département d’information publique des Nations Unies.


Dès 2009, les films seront projetés dans le monde entier, plus particulièrement dans les festivals de films, les cinémas, les écoles, les musées, les institutions culturelles, les avions et les cinémas itinérants. Ils seront également diffusés sur les principales chaînes de télévision.

Partenaires du projet :


Cette initiative, placée sous le patronage du Haut Commissaire des Nations Unies aux Droits de l’Homme, doit sa réalisation au soutien de la Commission Européenne, de la Direction Générale de la Coopération Internationale et du Développement du Ministère français des Affaires étrangères et européennes (DGCID) et enfin du SESC (Service social du Commerce) de Sao Paulo au Brésil.


Art for the World, avec la NABA (Nouvelle Académie des Beaux Arts de Milan), a aussi lancé un concours pour créer une affiche liée au projet. Des étudiants de 20 pays différents y participent déjà, et les 6 affiches gagnantes (une pour chaque thème) seront adoptées comme charte graphique du projet et exposées dans tous les lieux où le film sera projeté. Les affiches seront également téléchargeables sur : www.shakeyourrights.org

Histoires sur les Droits de l’Homme, dont Adelina von Fürstenberg est commissaire générale a reçu le label d’Evénement culturel 2008 du Conseil de l’Europe qui honore des projets artistiques innovants et exceptionnels organisés en Europe.

Les plus récents projets d’Art for The World sont, en 2007, la grande installation au néon Le langage de l’équilibre par Joseph Kosuth sur la façade du monastère de l’île de San Lazzaro, lors de la 52ème Biennale de Venise, Collateral, une manifestation itinérante d’art vidéo autour du regard des artistes sur cinéma au SESC Paulista, Sao Paulo, Brésil, et Urban Manners, une exposition d’art contemporain indien à l’Hangar Bicocca, Milan. (www.artfortheworld.net)


Pour de plus amples informations :

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ART for The World : Giovanni Sgrignuoli
press@artfortheworld.net
www.artfortheworld.net